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Inception (The Marked, #1) Inception by Bianca Scardoni
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“The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend. They shape the world around you with well-constructed lies, entombing you in the gossamer of their deceit. You’ll never know their true face, for they shed their masks in layers—meticulous and devious, like the skin of an ever-changing snake.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“Everything about the house was rich, and dense, and rooted. It was everything I wasn’t. Even the air, with its distinct smell of oak wood and sage, spoke to its identify and its history. I couldn’t help but feel small here. Overwhelmed. Incompatible.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“Be careful who you trust, for even the Devil was once an Angel.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it—eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“I hadn’t even left my room and already my day had taken a U-turn straight to hell.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“I walked hand in hand with my enemy, allowed their kiss of death to linger on my lips while the world disintegrated around me. I couldn’t see through the smoke and mirrors; too consumed with fighting a destiny I didn’t want; too afraid to let go of a life I wasn’t meant to have.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“The butterflies began waltzing in my belly again, this time to the sweet melody of his words. Words that were meant for me. I”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“free-falling through the rabbit hole and figure out which way is up again.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“He’s telling you the truth, angel,” said Dominic as he took another gut-churning step towards me. “You have nothing to worry about. He only kills our kind. Isn’t that right, Gabriel?”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“that the very first Slayer on Earth was born,”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“It isn’t very far if we take that short cut,” he pointed. “We”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“though I immediately lost my train of thought as I took in the smoking-hot guy standing before me.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“Tiny particles of dust danced lazily around my face, beckoning me for my attention as they fought to stay inside the light.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“the psychotic break being the part where I claimed to have been attacked by a vampire.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“The massive, Baronial-style gray stone had been in our family for over a century and had all the trappings of a real life haunted house, outfitted with arched Victorian towers, ivy-clung walls, and a spike-tipped fence that spanned the entire length of the grounds.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“Your silence speaks volumes.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“Sometimes it feels like the more I wish for peace and quiet in my life, the more chaotic my life becomes.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“At most, I could allow myself only a few minutes to cry for him—to grieve our lives, and then I had to push the memories away, burying them deep inside of me once again so that I could function. So that I could go on.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“the only thing more dangerous than moving forward was standing still.”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“You’ll”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“Dillon Walker. Biggest scumbag ever,” she said as soon as he wasn’t looking. “That’s his pregnant girlfriend waddling up over there,” she said pointing to an extremely pregnant sophomore girl. “And that’s the skank he screws from Easton when his girlfriend’s not around,” she added, pointing to another scantily clad girl only a few seats away from him. “Gross.” Guys like that needed to come with warning labels. The”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“Contrary to what they keep telling you in Cosmo Girl,” he said, shuffling forward in his chair. “We actually don’t stay on the phone all night talking about our feelings.” “What?”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“Jemma,” he interceded. “This is what you were born to do. This is your Calling.” “My Calling?” I repeated incredulously. “The hell it is.” A calling implies I have a choice, doesn’t it? That I could answer the call, or not. That I have a choice in whether or not I accept this as my destiny? Well, I don’t. I don’t want anything to do with it. And I don’t accept the call. Matter of fact, this line is no longer in service.  ”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“She was herself right off the bat and had this kind of, “this is me, take it or leave it,” attitude, which pulled me in like a moth to a flame. The”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“I used to cringe when people said I looked like him—my father, because I was a girl and girls aren’t supposed to look like their fathers. Girls are supposed to look like their mothers, or fairy princesses, or Barbie dolls, or some crap like that. I”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend. They shape the world around you with well-constructed lies, entombing you in the gossamer of their deceit. You’ll never know their true face, for they shed their masks in layers—meticulous and devious, like the skin of an ever-changing snake. I”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception
“Be careful who you trust, for even the Devil was once an Angel.                ”
Bianca Scardoni, Inception